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long experience in this branch of insect-collecting, which he 
not merely originated, but brought to perfection.—Ldward 
Newman. |} 
Emmelesia unifasciata at West Wickham.—l took a 
single specimen of Emmelesia unifasciata at light, at West 
Wickham, on the 14th August last (1874). This is, I believe, 
a new locality for this scarce species, though it has been 
before recorded from Forest Hill, and lately by Mr. Marshall 
(Entom. vil. 209) from Cheltenham.—W. A. Forbes; 35, 
S. Castle Street, Edinburgh. 
Rare Lepidoptera near Limerick.—Amongst my captures 
last season have been Lobophora hexapterata, Eurymene 
dolobraria, Nonagria Typhe, Sarrothripa Revayana, P. po- 
tentillana, and Gelechia cinerella; and also the insects 
which you determined to be Camptogamma fluviata 
and Oporabia filigrammaria. Mrs, Battersby may be inte- 
rested to know that I took six specimens of Sarrothripa 
Revayana, and could have taken more, but was not aware of 
its rarity as an Irish insect.—William Talbot; Tarbert, 
Limerick, March 10, 1875. 
Name of Insect.—In a letter received from my friend 
Mr. Francis Smith, R.N., of H.M.S. “ Repulse,” he tells 
me that at Payta, in Peru, he captured a very queer-looking, 
wingless bee, and asks me if | can tell him what it is. As I 
am quite unable to do so I shall be very glad if any entomo- 
logist will kindly reply in the pages of this periodical. Here 
is Mr. Smith’s description of it:—‘ A most curious insect, 
resembling a bee in all respects, but entirely devoid of wings 
or any traces of them. It is extremely rapid in its movements 
on the ground, running, when chased, under loose stones, &c. 
At first [ had the idea I had captured some sort. of spider. It 
has a long sting. Colour bright metallic-red, and in size 
about as large as a small bluebottle.” The italics are mine, 
for does not the “long sting” seem to suggest this creature 
may belong to the Ichneumonida, and the so-called sting be 
its ovipositor?’—Gervase F. Mathew; H.M.S. “ Britannia,” 
Dartmouth, March 17, 1875. 
[Will Mr. F. Smith, of the British Museum, kindly reply? 
No one else is so capable.—Ldward Newman. | 
The Bignell Beating-tray.—As my entomological friends 
have designated this little apparatus by the above name, and 
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